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Israel en 1957: Un reportaje
Barcelona. 23 cm. 266 p. Encuadernación en tapa blanda de editorial ilustrada. Colección 'Imago mundi', numero coleccion(v. 16). Pla, Josep 1897-1981. Israel el 1957. Un reportage. Traducción de Eduard Gonzalo. Traducción de: Israel el 1957. Un reportatge. Descripción. Imago mundi (Barcelona). v. 16 .. Este libro es de segunda mano y tiene o puede tener marcas y señales de su anterior propietario. ISBN: 8423334325
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272 pages, Paperback
First published September 1, 2002
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Josep Pla
220 books122 followersJosep Pla i Casadevall (known as José Pla in Spanish) (March 8, 1897, Palafrugell, Girona - April 23, 1981, Llofriu, Girona) was a Catalan journalist and a popular author. As a journalist he worked in France, Italy, England, Germany and Russia, from where he wrote political and cultural chronicles in Catalan.
The most important characteristics of the “planian” style are simplicity, irony, and clarity. His works show a subjective and colloquial view, “anti-literary”, in which he stresses, nevertheless, an enormous stylistic effort by calling things by their names and “coming up with the precise adjective”, one of his most persistent literary obsessions.
Pla lived completely dedicated to writing. The extent of his Obres Completes - Complete Works (46 volumes and nearly 40,000 pages), which is a collection of all his journals, reports, articles, essays, biographies and both long and short novels.
His liberal-conservative thought, skeptic and uncompromising, filled with irony and common sense, keeps sounding contemporary, completely current, even though it seems to contradict the current cultural establishment same as it did with its completely opposed antecessor. His books remain in print and both Spanish and Catalan critics have unanimously recognized him as one of the greatest writers of the 20th century.
The most important characteristics of the “planian” style are simplicity, irony, and clarity. His works show a subjective and colloquial view, “anti-literary”, in which he stresses, nevertheless, an enormous stylistic effort by calling things by their names and “coming up with the precise adjective”, one of his most persistent literary obsessions.
Pla lived completely dedicated to writing. The extent of his Obres Completes - Complete Works (46 volumes and nearly 40,000 pages), which is a collection of all his journals, reports, articles, essays, biographies and both long and short novels.
His liberal-conservative thought, skeptic and uncompromising, filled with irony and common sense, keeps sounding contemporary, completely current, even though it seems to contradict the current cultural establishment same as it did with its completely opposed antecessor. His books remain in print and both Spanish and Catalan critics have unanimously recognized him as one of the greatest writers of the 20th century.
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January 7, 2026
Muy recomendable. Escrito tras la Operación Kadesh, es un testimonio verdaderamente valioso que toca los temas más importantes, la esencia y la existencia de este pueblo, la Golah y la construcción de su Estado desde cero. Ideal para quien quiera introducirse en la historia reciente del país, de Oriente Próximo y de la geopolítica actual, puesto que lo escrito por Pla no ha perdido vigencia, en absoluto.
June 2, 2024
Repetitivo, enciclopédico, ningún interés. Pésimamente editado, además.
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